skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Most Seniors I've talked to are against allowing anybody to come into the country with little or no incentive to pay taxes. This is much different than being against immigration."

http://news.yahoo.com/poll-senior-citizens-league-77-seniors...

Apparently they're against the President's immigration reforms. Taxes is one issue of immigration. These people will be paying payroll taxes when working legally. Most Americans (especially older folks) would not do the work immigrants are coming to the US for.

Unfortunately I don't have polls for the Iraq war stuff. I just have examples I have encountered in my life.

As far as universal health care is concerned, it has been adopted by practically every first world country besides the US. Taiwan in the not too distant past offered universal health care and the main lesson they said they learned from the US was, not to them.

Older folks have an incentive to not have universal health care for everyone. They already have it or will have it soon. Giving it to everybody would decrease the quality of care for medicare. Most people that have looked into this issue have come to the conclusion that a single payer system works the best. There would need to be a lot of evidence to overcome the overwhelming evidence in favor of universal health care. Care to elaborate why the US shouldn't have it?
Let me paraphrase our new patent overlords:

The software on the Myhrvold side could not be placed into the processor on the prior art and vice versa. That means they are not interchangeable. That changes everything right there.
Good thing none of them will think of spending it or giving it away before they die.

Really, while there are arguments to be made for and against estate taxes, using it to correct a generational imbalance is incredibly silly.
This begs the question, do you actually own something when you can't decide how it is disposed of? So maybe it's not even your parent's.
That's the case for our universe as well, for example d^2x/dt^2 due to gravity for a piece of material is dependent on all other material in the universe.
I dislike IAP, so I simply stopped downloading any game which was free to play and required IAP. It almost always feels like a scam. There have been a few exceptions, but not many.

Had they given me the content up front and charged for the game, I'd have bought it probably.

Not sure how much of the gaming population I represent though.
An experiment: Can desperation drive success?
Instapaper is no different than web browsers that reformat pages according to the user's wishes by changing fonts and colors, hiding ads or saving to an archive. The Instapaper server only saves the URL, title and maybe some other metadata; it does not store the contents of pages.
People with lower incomes have a lower savings rate because they have to buy essentials, yes. Wealthy people would then end up paying a much smaller percentage of their income compared to everyone else.

People who come into wealth quickly seem to spend money quickly (athletes and lotto winners come to mind, hell even Willie Nelson went bankrupt at one point). People who earn wealth more slowly tend to end up investing their money and saving a larger percentage. If you make 300k/year, you could save 25% without blinking an eye, not so much if you earn 30k/year, especially if you have a dependent.
Is there any use of iTunes affiliates in the app? Like you have a 'beautiful wedding songs' chart & then you profit from any songs they download because of your app?

It would also be good to have paid for content - like pre-chosen track listings, affiliate sales would be high for this too!
Wow, didn't think anyone would post my own blog post here before me. I guess I now have no choice now.
Awesome job, way to go Karel and co.
Everyone is different. Speaking for myself, I never found books or tutorials useful. My mind simply balks at the prospect of doing exercises for the sake of it.

Instead what worked really well for me is to find a practical problem that I wanted to solve (maybe with the goal of making money from it). It turns out that just about any interesting project that you dream up for yourself will have aspects that are outside of your current knowledge/ability. Then as soon as you hit these parts start looking for reference materials, documentation or tutorials specifically related to this problem. Before you know it you're learning new stuff.

And the upshot of this approach is, that if you stick with it you may end up with a functional product at the end, which you can sell.

Also read other people's code. I find it really humbling to read well crafted code. It also motivates me to continue refining my own code.
Hmm, so this is coming from a person who only had to pay 10k USD for their MBA. The reality is that most of us face an MBA option of many times that in costs.
Your response time is awesome!

I'm about to implement filepicker.io for a project and really do not mind any kind of server-side integration that would avoid chances of malicious users abusing the service against our filepicker.io or S3 usage.
If it's a percentage, just pay a ton of money in taxes while you're still alive.
what an amazing tutorial!
We take this stuff seriously. Great, shoot me an email at brett at filepicker.io and we can walk through how to get you set up on the new security scheme
And the guy has a successful iOS app which recently launched an Android version. So your point is?
Same here, it was a instant nope.
I still only have my iPad 1. I don't use it often enough (maybe 10 hours a year) to justify getting a newer one.

I mean, it's good entertainment on a plane, but otherwise it's just a handy thing to lend to non-technical people who are uncomfortable with keyboards. If I'm not in front of my computer, my phone is more useful for getting to the web.
Forget Customer Pain. Find Arbitrages.
I did a CSPRNG in Javascript using mouse movements for entropy: https://github.com/fusionbox/mouseware
I see what you're saying and there are some sites that do a pretty decent job of what you're saying. For example, Opera has some amazing documents on their site. The much maligned w3schools even does a pretty decent job of showing how everything fits together (in the context of web development).

The problem that I see with your approach is that it is really hard to explain certain concepts to people without any experience. For example, if I wanted to explain the difference between Java and Python, I would likely have to get into the difference between static and dynamic typing. I can't think of a way to explain a type system to someone who can't write a basic program.

Another concern I have is that too comprehensive a resource could actually teach bad habits. If I would have learned from one source, I wouldn't have learned how to debug via Google. I can't tell you how many times knowing how to answer questions with a search engine has saved me!

Great comment though - I bet the developers love reading feedback like this!!
It's why the World Wide Web was created.

The Internet is an underlying communications platform that was intended to be a set of robust, fault-tolerant, and distributed computer networks.

The WWW is specifically the intersection of HTML (markup) and HTTP (transport protocol) for document sharing over an underlying network protocol (generally TCP/IP on the Internet).
Great post - point by point refutation of the "don't get an MBA".

One thing I would like to add - finding and filling the gaps in your knowledge.

Repost from "the don't get an MBA" thread : There might be an education bubble. There might be an anti-education bias - especially here.
But even with the best online tools and classes, what you learn with a standard curriculum is just better - that's the sad truth, and it is even truer if you are a self directed learner and don't care about the grades.
Case in point - I got interested in economics and started reading books - then followed online courses and videos from prestigious universities and so on. Purchased textbooks, etc. I worked seriously, but I soon realized that the freedom to dig on subjects I thought worth investigating was mitigated by the lack of common knowledge expected for advancing my knowledge further.
You can look at that like a multiple dependancies problem - except that you don't know about these dependancies beforehand.
With a traditional class, you acquire the same vocabulary, the same comparison basis and so on - and that's priceless. I have started taking classes, and I now realize that. I learn about topics I would have never learnt on my own and I realize 'yes, they could be quite useful'.
Please realize I'm not even taking about the network or other benefits you may find in an MBA - just the actual knowledge.
I haven't done an MBA (yet?), but I guess most of the commenters here haven't either - and haven't even tried and given up (which would then be interesting to know).
So I wonder how they can judge about its pertinence. Before this experience, I was also imbued in delusions of "online learning that made everything possible". But there's a dependency ceiling - I've touched it. Personally, if I can enroll in one, I know I will.
"It's like all previous DRM schemes, but this time it will work!"

Uh huh.
BayArea (SF) is covered by eBay Now: https://now.ebay.com

And I can say as a user of this service, that it works!
Uh-Huh. CRM worked so well for DVDs and Blu-ray discs, surely it will be just as good on 3D printers! It's un-hackable(TM)!
TIL futuristic 3D-printers will have a 3.5" floppy disk drive and 2 sets of arrow keys on the keyboard.

I can't wait for the future!
His post should be titled "Hey entrepreneur - please get an MBA when it costs 10 times less".
Unless a neighbor can homeschool ;)
As I mentionned in my post, I realize that I was really lucky thanks to Quebec government subsidies and that the financial ramifications are significant. However, you can often have your employer subsidize part(or all) of your tuition.

Ultimately, the value of an MBA is significant but the decision to undertake one is very personal. You have to weigh your own value for education with the cost you'll incur.
This is intended to be a drop-in replacement (sign in, create namespace, update the endpoint address to http://api.skybiometry.com/fc/ and use your old code) for face detection and recognition. Detection of some face attributes is still missing but we are working on it. And we use our computer vision algorithms, so expect slightly different results.
Why is @AnonymousOwn3r receiving press again? When he claimed to have "hacked" Godaddy, the source code he released was actually from some open source project.

Seems like irresponsible/sensationalist journalism to print his claim without anything to back it up.
That’s accurate. Articles are peppered with first person pronouns. Minimalist on presentation AND content, sadly.
SmoothLife - A (floating point) generalization of Conway's Game of Life (source)
No, I am not shallow. I work my ass off and if I live comfortably, it's because of it. Sounds like you didn't read the article at all to think my comment had little reflection.
As always (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3315028), you fail to address the data, preferring instead to make logical fallacies (typically argument by authority, now borderline ad-hominem). The HN readership is smart enough to see through this, and I'd be very surprised if you convinced a single person. Why do you persist in it?

[Edit, in response to your edit: I cited data. Do you dispute the data or not? Note that an argument from authority is not the same as a data-driven argument.]
Maybe he's not interested in promoting competition for his other business.
Neat, good idea.
Totally agree! Seeing that the Filepicker team is responsive to this kind of public feedback and are reaching out to the author in a appreciative and collaborative way speaks volumes about their character.

Even more excited to get Filepicker implemented now!
Office 2013 hits RTM, general availability during first quarter of 2013
Method to detect and prove GPL violations
That's interesting. I've been playing with not charging expenses and adding an appropriately sized chunk on my overall price. Generally this seems to go down well with some variation of a "neither of us want to waste time arguing over what my max meal bill should be" line.

I like avoiding two separate sets of price negotiations.
Should a person seek to get an MBA from a more highly-ranked school than where that person completed undergraduate studies? A lot my undergrad classmates (top-25 university) are getting MBAs from a less-well rated private university.
Those progressive European democracies all have VATs. Of the top 20 economies in the world, the US is the only one without a VAT.

This doesn't mean it's a good idea, or a bad idea, but very progressive places have used them without the world ending. It's probably a good way to keep spending in check, because it makes it a lot harder to jack up someone else's taxes to pay for your stuff.

(And while they do tax their rich more than America taxes its rich, the shape of the slope is nowhere what you would imagine. It's very rare for any marginal rate to get over 50%.)
Restart Fund to acquihire "any" YC, 500S, or TS company
You know, the problem is you are smart and you are not aware of how people are approaching computer programming topics. IMHO, sorta like a startup pitch, if you can't explain the difference (to a beginner) between two languages in less than 4 sentences, you probably lost them.
And you'd have to look out for off by epsilon errors. Just like regular computers running on regular physics.
Or just use this recipe: Be dumb enough to try but smart enough and dedicated enough to make it happen. Throw in a dash of luck. If you're successful, know when to quit. If you're not successful know when to quit.
Jon does post roughly annual updates as dredmorbius pointed out; this is the last one I could find on a quick search:
https://lwn.net/Articles/504952/
That's probably slightly more positive than others, which typically seem to be along the lines of "scraping by, subscriber counts are roughly static".

(Please consider subscribing by the way! Lwn is a fantastic resource in my opinion, and I'd hate for it to go away).
Not instantaneously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_gravity
Hilarious! I wonder if this is an organized effort or just sheer coincidence
I commonly see the misspelling "MicroSoft". Does anyone know if it was ever spelled that way? Originally it was "Micro-Soft", but did they ever use the intercaps form?

People commonly misspell "Xcode" and "Xbox", but I really hate it when they write "MAC" to refer Apple's Macintosh. It's not an acronym!
MongoHQ launches new tools for monitoring and managing databases
Create new template projects based on what you've done on the corporate specifically for your portfolio site.

It should be easy to take the base of what you've worked on and generalize it for the portfolio.

Also, take on a couple of free, charity projects for individuals you know or local organizations just to add to your portfolio and get testimonials and references.
It depends what you want to get out of it. Do you just want the knowledge or do you want the prestige as well?

I will say this, if you don't have an MBA from a top 15 school, your employment options are drastically reduced. That being said, if you're doing your own start-up and you want a well-rounded business education, does it matter that much?
I think the name (a holdover from the 1800's) puts a lot of people off. As bcbrown said, it is really just the news magazine for smart people. There is a section on Finance and Economics, but it isn't any bigger than the Science section, say.

It would probably appeal to many HN readers, as it has a global, smart outlook. They cover things you don't hear about elsewhere. It is my primary source for news (I listen to the audio edition each week on my commute.)
Nice stuff HZ!
Almost certainly a Google Bomb.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb
At anything like a 50% estate tax, a 20-millionaire can just hire a bunch of family members at $100,000 a year and lose less in income and payroll taxes.

It's not 100% trivial, but there is an entire industry devoted to helping people with this. That industry really shouldn't exist.
I don't see how this actually supports the pursuit of an MBA.

For instance, the first point is that you learn a range of subjects, and while acknowledging that you could learn them each through a book, MBA programs let you talk about these subjects with people from unique backgrounds. Why do I need an MBA program to do that? I can quickly find plenty of people from any of the aforementioned industries outside of an MBA program. This is a weak point.

The second point is that it is cheap. I've lived in NYC, worked in finance, and know plenty of MBAs, and the general rule is, if your MBA isn't from a top-tier school, it's hard to justify getting one (more on that in a moment). Just saying you can get a cheap MBA doesn't support the point getting an MBA.

The 5th point probably illustrates best why NOT to get an MBA. MBA programs, historically, have been breeding grounds for large corporations to hire executives from, especially if you come from a top-tier program. However, I don't think entrepreneurship really gives a shit where you went to school or what you studied. Empirically, it doesn't seem to have much impact. Until an MBA program can actually demonstrate that a significant portion of their graduates go on to have a more successful run in startups, I don't think there is a great argument for pursuing an MBA to start a company.
Of course he isn't interested in promoting competition for other business. I'm not saying that he has to do so, it is his business. But I imagine content creators aren't interested in helping to pay Marco's salary via providing content for Instapaper, yet Marco doesn't ask them. There is a clear double standard: if it is your content, it is mine to use unless you go well out of your way to say otherwise. If it is my content, hands off, bub.

I'd be more impressed if he did allow sharing to competitors and let Instapaper win on quality, not a hard coded restriction. It would show a remarkable faith in his product.
iOS has had unified search prior to Siri. (iOS 3)
so by doing that you're still trusting the server not to send you evil Javascript that surreptitiously posts off your private key.

it's exactly equivalent from a security perspective, unless you read every line of Javascript, in which case you might as well read the openssl manual instead and generate the CSR yourself.

(note that there's a rarely used <input> keygen type, but to sign the CSR you'd need programmatic access to the private key, again defeating any security properties).
I find it really interesting that you refer to this as "harsh labour laws". Typically, "harsh labour laws" refers to "no maximums on how many hours/day a person can work, no overtime, etc". I love seeing different perspectives like this!
Appeals court reverses injunction on Samsung Galaxy Nexus in the US
How Does a Furnace Work Exactly?
How what I do helps make the world a better place
There's no need to "bolt on" lazy evaluation since (future) and (delay) are parts of the core language (not to mention lazy seqs)
Txtr beagle - The Lightest and Smallest eReader.
I actually dropped out halfway through a 2-year full time MBA degree from the same school as the author of the blog post, this spring. My experience was a bit different - most of the people in the full-time program were younger and didn't have that much outside industry experience. I met a few people in the executive MBA program (part-time, nights and weekends), and they all seemed to be not only much more experienced and knowledgeable, but having a lot more fun too.

If I were to do this over again (which I won't, this experience really cemented that a classroom is the worst possible learning style for me), I would definitely go with the advice to get into the best possible MBA program I could (I got a 700 on the GMAT on the first try without studying, but chose to go to school in Montreal for the location and tuition). There is only one objective criteria for how good schools are - how wealthy and influential their alumni become. The huge expenses associated with an MBA program are basically a toll fee to keep the poor rabble out of the rich kids' club. It's worth getting in there to become friends with these people.
hashlife is a pretty brilliant algorithm. basically it sort of memoizes patterns at different scales. highly recommended to check out the details of how it works.
Video - Night driving on E3 twoards Trondheim, surprisingly it`s snowing
or it might just be returning the same private key for everyone! who knows?
I read "Now Intellectual Vultures...", realized my reading mistake and stopped reading the article. Somehow felt like I grasped the essence.
>I, a Baby Boomer, have a higher retirement age than my parents have, and have paid a higher rate of payroll or self-employment taxes into Social Security than my parents generally did.

I think the key observation you're making is that baby boomers' parents will have had a better retirement than the baby boomers are likely to, because at the time their parents were retired, the boomers were in their prime working age and there were plenty of resources to care for the then-retirees.

The trouble is that the converse is happening and about to happen. And there isn't really anything anyone could have done about it, other than maybe for the boomers to have had more kids. All of the attempts to do it through economic hocus pocus are kind of missing the point. The social security trust fund is a piece of paper that says there is a social security trust fund. The bonds it redeems still have to be paid by the treasury in the year the money is spent. The same goes for private retirement savings -- when you cash in your stocks and buy nursing services, you take a productive worker out of the economy to provide nursing services when that person could otherwise have been a scientist or small business owner or the like.

The problem stems from the fact that the things retirees want are, as a general rule, less economically productive than the things working people want. Boomers having saved a substantial amount of money for retirement would actually make that problem worse because it means all the more resources under their control to be allocated to leisure and non-research medical care, rather than education and R&D and other such things that retirees have little personal incentive to demand.

The article's suggestion (inflation) is only a solution in the sense that it reduces the economic power of the retirees, meaning that they get less healthcare and the young get more education and infrastructure. But the tradeoff is still inevitable -- they're just pointing out a method of making it in a way that moves the slider away from retirees in the face of the strong political power of the AARP, by placing the decision in the hands of the federal reserve board which is not as easily influenced by lobby groups as elected officials.